I had similar problems with a woody box I set up two days ago with the
latest libs from the net. There were errors when I generated the de_CH
locale. In the locale file, there was a " missing at the end of a line.
Furthermore, the postinstall script did not succeed as there is no
/etc/environment file.

I corrected the " problem and made a /etc/environment file with a line
LANG=de_CH and now it works.

Hi,
I have a problem with all iso-8859 locales i tryed to set
on my debian woody install. They fail badly. Nonetheless,
there is no problem at all with UTF or japanese locales, so
it is a bit strange to me. I upgraded from potatoe to
woody about 6 month ago, and i had such problems since that
moment or soon after, as far as i remember.
Here is some abstracts of locale-def output:
Generating locales...
en_US.ISO-8859-1...character map `ISO-8859-1' is not ASCII compatible,
locale not ISO C compliant
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:70: `0' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:71: `1' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:72: `2' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:73: `3' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:74: `4' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:75: `5' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:76: `6' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:77: `7' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:78: `8' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:79: `9' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:81: `a' already defined in charmap
[...]
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:106: `z' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:107: `th' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:197: `NU' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:200: `PI' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:327: LC_COLLATE: syntax error
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:328: LC_COLLATE: syntax error
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:329: LC_COLLATE: syntax error
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:330: LC_COLLATE: syntax error
[...]
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:45: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in
field `int_curr_symbol'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:46: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in
field `currency_symbol'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:47: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in
field `mon_decimal_point'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:48: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in
field `mon_thousands_sep'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:51: LC_MONETARY: unknown character in
field `negative_sign'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:64: LC_NUMERIC: unknown character in field
`decimal_point'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:65: LC_NUMERIC: unknown character in field
`thousands_sep'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:70: LC_TIME: unknown character in field
`abday'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:70: LC_TIME: unknown character in field
`abday'
[...]
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:141: LC_NAME: unknown character in field
`name_fmt'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:142: LC_NAME: unknown character in field
`name_miss'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:143: LC_NAME: unknown character in field
`name_mr'/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:144: LC_NAME: unknown character
in field `name_mrs'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:145: LC_NAME: unknown character in field
`name_ms'/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:154: LC_ADDRESS: unknown
character in field `postal_fmt'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:155: LC_ADDRESS: unknown character in
field `country_name'
[...]
/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US:173: LC_TELEPHONE: unknown character in
field `int_prefix'
<SP> character not in class `space'
LC_NUMERIC: value for field `decimal_point' must not be the empty string
LC_MONETARY: value of field `int_curr_symbol' has wrong length
LC_MONETARY: value for field `mon_decimal_point' must not be the empty
string
LC_MESSAGES: value for field `yesexpr' must not be an empty string
LC_MESSAGES: value for field `noexpr' must not be an empty string
LC_NAME: field `name_fmt' must not be empty
[...]
LC_ADDRESS: `country_ab2' value does not match `country_num' value
LC_ADDRESS: `country_ab3' value does not match `country_num' value
LC_TELEPHONE: field `tel_int_fmt' must not be empty
done
en_US.UTF-8... done
fr_FR.ISO-8859-1...character map `ISO-8859-1' is not ASCII compatible,
locale not ISO C compliant
/usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_FR:25: LC_IDENTIFICATION: unknown character
in field `address'
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:70: `0' already defined in charmap
/usr/share/i18n/locales/iso14651_t1:71: `1' already defined in charmap
[and so on...]
Problems also arise for iso-8859-15 (for fr_FR@Euro) so that all
iso-8859 locales are unsuable (ls provides only filenames like '????0??'
not very useful, and a number of shell commands break). I can only
use C-locale of japanese locales (but i am not yet good enough in
japanese to use it on a daily base). I have also some strange warning
messages for inexistant mime-support-compat file when i
apt-get upgrade things, some remaining ghosts of potatoe installation
it seems, but i guess it is quite benign and probably unrelated.
By the way, my hardware architecture is PowerPC if it matters.
I hope someone will have some clues about a missing package or
an incorrect setting that may cause this kind of annoyance.
I was looking for a solution for a few months without success so
far, so if noone has any idea, I guess it will be time for
a reinstallation from scratch.
Thank you for reading, anyway.
mata ne
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luigi
mailto:luigi@fleming.u-psud.fr
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